Apoorva and I volunteer at the Bhowanipore police station Nabadisha centre. We have been conducting sessions around the topics of gender identity, stereotypes, understanding of emotions, story building by showing pictures and story telling with morals. This activity that was conducted last Friday, helped the children to interact with each other, work together and build…
Sanjukta, the volunteer at Anandan, South End Park started off the session on 8 August with a fun game on creating animal sounds. Her ‘kids’ as she fondly calls them, made sounds of their favourite animals. They then moved on to talking about their favourite books-what they liked to read. Out of the 10…
Jana Natya Manch (Janam) spent an eventful few days in Calcutta. After two performances in schools, the group spent some time on 26 August with volunteers from the Share Stories Open Minds project and educators from the centres that the volunteers go to. They first performed Yeh Bhi Hinsa Hai—a play done in typical street…
In the previous session at the centre, we had done an activity based on the broad idea of stereotyping and gender roles. This was followed by a story on why we associate certain characteristics or objects with specific genders. In this session, the volunteers at the Bhowanipore centre, Priyanka and Apoorva took the discussion on…
We started the class with some fun exercises—which included imitating actions— which resulted in all sorts of hilarity. After much laughter and funny noises and faces, we started with storytelling. The games were an ideal warm-up and needed because sometimes the children are tired after long school hours. Paroma started with a story of brave…
